The Little World

I wonder why the designers of the Vickers Delta Mk III kit in The Czech Republic resisted the temptation to put photo-etch brass and resin castings in the kit? Perhaps they relegated this on to the apprentice with instructions to make it simple. if so, I am grateful. The interior parts were sturdy enough to handle and had enough surface area to take the cement. The interior attachment points could have been better, but I am growing  philosophic about European moulding…

The instruction to paint the cockpit interior mostly in sliver was also a surprise as I had expected British cockpit green . But I defer to what may be greater knowledge and as you see so little of it from the outside, it really makes no difference.

The kit makes up into a number of useful sub-assemblies and there are enough spare parts that you end up making them up as spares in the time between paint coats. One day we’ll be making up winter aircraft and all the snow skis that are building up in the spares box will come in handy.

Note that this is the first set of separate seaplane floats I’ve assembled – I may have gone a bit overkill with the custom jig, but in the event, the final geometry came out almost perfectly. The struts hit onto the plates moulded into the underside of the wing and there was no filing or filling required. I may make up the second set and keep it until there is a suitable fuselage. It fits a Hawker Hurricane and I bet it would support other small fighters.